Found by our senior producer: excellent behind-the-scenes footage of recording sessions at Stax and FAME studios. You’ve got the Mar-Keys working out arrangements around a conference table; Booker T and the MGs laying down “Time is Tight”, and Brook Benton belting “I Know You Care.”
(Source: youtu.be)
this is the sound of my heart breaking…
(Source: tk9415)
The most epic New York Times correction EVER
Agreed.
Orson Welles’ Last Interview, 2 Hours Before His Death
only the morbidly curious need apply. actually, i take that back, this is pretty fascinating stuff even when divorced from its context — orson welles could always elevate an interview into the realm of high entertainment, and that held true until the very end. here, Welles chats about being 70, loving Rita Hayworth, and disparages the soap operas of the 1980s. it was 9 days before my 1st birthday.
- “old age is a shipwreck.”
“but you feel wonderful, don’t you?”
- “oh, sure.”
Orson Welles’ last interview, two hours before passed away.
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“Who has two thumbs, a bajillion dollars, and is the world’s greatest detective? The Goddamn Batman, that’s who.” - Illustration by Sam Spratt
It seemed time to make something stupid again… but also time to make Batman… I figured the two didn’t necessarily need to be separate things. If you want to try your hand at some captions, you can do so at memegenerator with the base-image. Tag your creations with #batmanisadick
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Some of our favorite (and your most liked/reblogged) Tumblr posts of 2011:
- How to Write an Important Novel
- To a Friend in Love with the Wrong Man Again
Woody Guthrie’s New Years resolutions from 1942. Dance Better, Beat Fascism, Take Bath, Don’t Get Lonesome. That about says it all (via BoingBoing)
Dream good.
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All the wants!
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Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts - Yahoo! Finance
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn’t be able to afford it all before Christmas.Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.
“She told him, ‘No, I’m paying for it,’” recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. “He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn’t, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears.”
At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers’ layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn’t afford, especially toys and children’s clothes set aside by impoverished parents.
The Christmas spirit, in action.
(h/t Dot Johnson)
Genuinely moved by this story.
(chew your young)
